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PENCIL HOLDER. 4 No. 393,426. Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @rEicE.

BRADLEY A. FISKE, OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.

PENCIL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,426, dated November 27, 1888.

Application filed February1,1888. Serial No. 5162.677. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BRADLEY A. FISKE, of the United States Navy, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pencil-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new form of pencil holder or case adapted to hold an ordinary pencil-lead and to allow of the same being con stantly adjusted forward while held firmly in position until expended.

The object of the invention is to produce a simple form of pencil which shall need no sharpening, and to make the holder suliiciently inexpensive to allow of its being thrown away after the lead originally placed therein has been used up.

My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the device, as hereinafter more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my new pencil. Figs. 2 and 3 are partial longitudinal sections of modifications thereof. Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line 75 Z, and Fig. 5 a similar section on the line Y Y of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A represents the tubular case or holder made, preferably, of wood.

13 is a cap of metal, which fits over the end of said case. Secured to the said cap B is a tube or lining, C, of thin metal, which is adapted to enter the case A and to receive within it the pencildead l).

The lining C may be slotted or slit longitudinally and provided on one edge of the slot or slit with a series of projections, E, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3; or it may consist simply of an unbroken tube of some soft metal or alloy, or of any other easily compressible or soft but moderatelyresisting material, as shown at C, Fig. 2.

The cap B and tube 0 being removed from the case A, the lead D is inserted in the tube and is held tightly therein by frictional con tact with the inner periphery of said tube. The tube 0 is then placed in the holder A and the cap 13 is placed over the end of said holder. The lead D then protrudes for a suitable distanee beyond the pointed extremity of said holder, and the pencil is ready for use. Then the lead point has worn away so that the penfixed in Figs. 1 and 2.

oil requires sharpening, the cap 13 and tube 0 are removed from the holder A and the lead is drawn forward in the tube 0. This is easily done by hand. The tube is then compressed directly in rear of the end of the lead, as shown atF in Fig. 2; or, in the form of the device shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the projection l3 direetly in rear of the end of the lead is bent inward, in either case an abutment being formed against which the lead bears, and is so prevented from being pushed inward by the pressure on its exposed end when the pencil is in use. After the tube or projection therein is compressed or bent as described. the tube and cap are again applied to the holder.

The construction illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3 is a convenient one in practice, inasmuch as the projections E can be spaced ,at such distance apart as that the movementof the lead from in front of one projection to a position in front of the next following projection may cause it to protrude the proper distance from the end of the holder when in place therein, so that no special adjustment of this distance every time the lead is shifted is necessary.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the cap B is made of different shapc--that is, conical in form-and is applied to the opposite end of the holder from that to which it is shown af- The longitudinal opening in the case A. in this construction need not extend entirely through the case. The tube (l is secured to the cap, before. There is a central opening, i, in the cap for the protru sion of the lead. The case A is shouldered, as shown, to receive the cap.

The cap '8 in Figs. 1 and 2 serves to cover the end of the opening in the holder A. Its presence is not essential to the holding of the tube or lining 0 within said holder, inasmuch as said tube or lining fits closely within said holder.

I claim 1. A tubular pencil case or holder and a lin ing therefor of compressible nouelastic material constructed to receive the lead, substantially as described.

2. A. tubular pencil case or holder and a lining therefor of compressible non-elastic material constructed to receive the lead, the said lining being longitudinally slit or slotted, sub stantially as described.

3. A tubular pencil case or holder and a lining therefor 01 compressible non-elastic material constructed to receive the lead, the said lining being longitudinally slit or slotted and having on an edge of said slit or slot a series of projections, substantially as described.

4. A tubular pencil ease or holder, a cap adapted to fit on one end thereof, and a tube of thin metal secured to said cap and adapted to enter said tubular ease, substantially as described.

5. A tubular pencil ease or holder, a cup adapted to fit over one end thereof, and a tube of thin metal having a longitudinal slot or opening and on one side ofsaid opening a series of projections, substantially as described. 

